Allopeas
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| Allopeas gracile | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Allopeas H. B. Baker, 1935[1]
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Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Subulinidae.
Species
The genus Allopeas includes the following species:
- Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) - spike awlsnail[3]
- Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834) - graceful awlsnail[4] - type species[5]
- Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852) - Mauritian awlsnail[6]
- Allopeas micra (d’Orbigny, 1835)[7]
- Allopeas myrmekophilos R. Janssen, 2002[8]
References
- ^ Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." Nautilus 48(3): 84.
- ^ Strebel, H., & Pfeffer G.J. (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch. 5: 109.
- ^ "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ Naggs F. (1992). "Tortaxis Pilsbry, 1906 and Allopeas Baker, 1935 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation by the designation of a neotype for Achatina erecta Benson, 1842". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49: 258-260.
- ^ "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
- ^ Witte V.; Janssen R.; Eppenstein A.; Maschwitz U. (2002). "Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae)". Insectes Sociaux. 49 (4): 301–305. doi:10.1007/PL00012646.
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